After years of cuts in state subsidies and growing resistance to rising tuition, U.S. colleges and universities are starting to unwind decades of administrative bloat and back-office waste that helped push up costs and tuition.

With the political climate favorable to the GOP in many ways this year, a lot of attention has been showered on the surprising re-election struggles of the Republican governor and senator of deep-red Kansas. Now, it seems, things are even getting dicey for two of the state's U.S. House Republicans.

Citigroup’s top energy banker spent a decade grooming some of Houston’s most talented basketball players, many from less-privileged backgrounds. Now, the payoff: Several are drawing notice on leading college teams.

The NBA may have learned its lesson with big men and their big men issues, which is why ripples were sent through the league when it came out on Thursday that Joel Embiid, the presumed number one pick in the upcoming draft, had suffered a stress fracture in his foot.

With Janet Yellen about to become the first female chief of the Federal Reserve, it looks like a golden era for women economists has finally arrived. But the high-profile gains contrast with college economics departments, where women remain a minority at every level of the profession.